MICROSOFT/CMOPUTER INDUSTRY

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:24:55 -0700

Go ahead, make our day and switch to Linux....so we get
rid of your wining...
>-----Original Message-----
>dear microsoft
>I am utterly disgusted with your operating system
>i have used it for several years and find it
>infuriatingly slow awkard and bug ridden
>
>I was trying to set up two modems on one machine in
order
>to marginally increase the infuriatingly slow progress
>that telephone modems make of any download and i
stumbled
>upon the mulitlink part of windows 98
>This feature does not work
>the internet service providers do not support this
feature
>without this feature and amr modem in a K7VZA Ecs via
>mainboard is unusable
>YOUR OWN CUSTOMER COMPLAINT SERVIE IS UNUSABLE
>THE ENTIRE INTERNET IS SIMPLY A CON TO KEEP PEOPLE
>CONECTED FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE
>
>WINDOWS XP cannot even rotate a 56k jpg image through 90
>degrees on a 2.6ghz pentium 4 without creating an
>undeleteable temporary file!
>
>Your software is abysmal and your websites are a
disgrace.
>Maplin electronics in the uk are also offering no
>customer service what soever
>Micro Star Inernational have illegal disclaimers with
>regard to there software products bundled with their
>nvidia geforce 4 graphics card (VTD mx 440 agp 8x 64mb
>ddr) which also do not perform as per the advertising
the
>card is incapable of digitising tv input to mpeg II
>format no does the software supplied with it fundtion
>properly nor is it of a high standard
>the live bios program encourages people to cause £100
>pounds sterling worth of damage to their machines tand
>then neither the repair company nor MSI are capable of
>communicating or accepting responsibility for the damage
>the repair company in particular maplin electronics -
>quite happy to sell so called amr 56kbps modems which
>never connect to the internet above 40kbps and dowload
at
>200bytes per second this they claim is NORMAL so when i
>tried to install two modems and two phone lines imagine
>my surprise when the multilink feature in win98 does not
>work nor would any uk isp
>virgin net aol ukonline tiscali support such a
>connection - pity really as with a high speed uart 16650
>and two v32 modems according to a hardware manual each
>modem should be capapble of connecting at 234kbps
>furthermore the K7VZA main board advertised by maplin
>electronics as capable of running a 1.5ghz athlon
>thunderbird through their easy upgrade ability which all
>the staff claimed though when i asked for such an
upgrade
>they all laughed and said it was impossible and that the
>maximum processor was a1.2ghz athlon
>(this was after they had clamped my car and forced me to
>pay £50 pounds sterling to unclamp it)
>Along with 2 socket 7 main boards which are imposible to
>upgrade as there is no information regarding the voltage
>regulation modules available on the internet
>(intel 430tx and vx the vx has an l2 cache socket and a
>30pin vrm for which i have no instructions with regard
to
>lowering the voltage in order to insert a pentium mmx
>chip nor what the maximum speed is though the bus speeds
>are 60mhz 66mhz and 75/55mhz there is a three times
>multiplier available
>the tx board came with an instruction *** claiming it
>would run a k6 266 mhz chip i purchasde a k6 2 266 mhz
>and cant get it to run at all.
>.
>